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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, June 22, 2019

The President of The United States Is A Rapist

One of the truisms of #MeToo is that there is never just one accusation against sexual predators. I don't think Al Franken's sins were criminal, but there were a lot of them.  The single accusation against, for instance, Aziz Ansari matters, because that was a single instance of a bad date.  Sexual predators are predators; they prey on women. Plural.

We have yet another accusation against Trump. That makes roughly 21 women who have accused Trump.

He's a rapist.  OK, accused rapist.  Whatever.

People have noted that this will not have any impact on his base. They are, after all, deplorable.

But I think this is why about 55% of Americans say they will never vote for him.  Still, for 45% of Americans, being a rapist isn't apparently disqualifying.  That's just appalling. 

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